Books Details
Author : Paul Kenyon Pages : 432 pages Publisher : Apollo
Language : ISBN-10 : 1784972134 ISBN-13 : 9781784972134
Books Descriptions
The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that
he built a 35-storey-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory
Coast. The austere, incorruptible leader who has shut Eritrea
off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripted
every adult into the armed forces. In Equatorial Guinea, the
paranoid despot who thought Hitler was the saviour of Africa
and waged a relentless campaign of terror against his own
people. The Libyan army officer who authored a new work of
political philosophy, The Green Book, and lived in a tent with
a harem of female soldiers, running his country like a mafia
family business.And behind these almost incredible stories of
fantastic violence and excess lie the dark secrets of Western
greed and complicity, the insatiable taste for chocolate, oil,
diamonds and gold that has encouraged dictators to rule with an
iron hand, siphoning off their share of the action into
mansions in Paris and banks in Zurich and keeping their people
in dire poverty.
